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The Dell Validated Design for Risk Assessment uses standardized, domain-specific system recommendations. The building blocks consist of infrastructure servers, storage, networking, and compute servers. Configuration recommendations are provided for each of the building blocks. The recommendations are based on the findings from performance testing using the STAC-A2 benchmark. This benchmark applies to financial nontrading use cases and workloads, and focuses on: